African American Biography

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    • A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers
    • Auteur(s): Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
    • Narrateur(s): Daphne Kouma
    • Durée: 8 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Covering thousands of years, six continents, and just about every mathematical discipline, The Secret Lives of Numbers is an immensely compelling narrative history.

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    • Auteur(s): Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 4 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-11-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space....

    Prix courant: 17,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America
    • Auteur(s): Tonya Bolden
    • Narrateur(s): uncredited
    • Durée: 2 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-08-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The first African men, women, and children in colonial America did not arrive with dreams of freedom or hopes of a new, better life....

    Prix courant: 28,67$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Who Was?
    • Auteur(s): Kirsten Anderson, Who HQ
    • Narrateur(s): William DeMeritt
    • Série: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Durée: 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Meet the man who changed the game forever. Michael Jordan has always been competitive - even as a young boy, he fought for attention. His need to be the best made him a star player on his college basketball team and helped him become an NBA legend....

    Prix courant: 8,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Jacqueline Woodson
    • Narrateur(s): Jacqueline Woodson
    • Durée: 3 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s....

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    • Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrateur(s): Channie Waites
    • Durée: 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans....

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    • Auteur(s): Walter Rodney
    • Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
    • Durée: 4 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A True Story of Murder in America
    • Auteur(s): Jill Leovy
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
    • Durée: 13 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Lucia Raatma
    • Narrateur(s): anonymous
    • Durée: 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Michelle Obama became First Lady on January 20, 2009. But before she lived at the White House, she was a powerful lawyer. Learn about her childhood, education, and goals as First Lady of the United States....

    Prix courant: 3,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Prison Letters of George Jackson
    • Auteur(s): George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr. - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Jackson Jr.
    • Durée: 11 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life....

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    • The Story of Joseph Laroche
    • Auteur(s): Serge Bilé
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 4 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a time when few Black men had access to an education - and when even fewer were able to travel on a luxurious ship in first or second class....

    Prix courant: 17,30$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Road to Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Catherine Clinton
    • Narrateur(s): Shayna Small
    • Durée: 8 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-01-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of 19th-century America's most enduring and important figures....

    Prix courant: 25,23$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Mia Ellis
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

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    • The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
    • Auteur(s): Mark Bowden
    • Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
    • Durée: 10 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes listeners inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • Auteur(s): Philippe Girard
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Woodson
    • Durée: 10 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-11-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
    • Auteur(s): Soyica Diggs Colbert
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 13 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Tina Knowles
    • Durée: 11 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-04-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, chronicles a life like none other. Enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering, Matriarch is a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.

    Prix courant: 28,51$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
    • Auteur(s): Karolyn Smardz Frost
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 14 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-02-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Acclaimed archeologist and historian Karolyn Smardz Frost painstakingly resurrects Thornton and Lucie Blackburn⿿s perilous 1830s journey from Kentucky slavery to Canadian freedom....

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